Arcademic Skill Builders - a strong site with many outstanding educational games FunBrain - a great educational gaming site Scholastic - another site with rich learning games Kinetic City - great site for science and engineering games Discovery Kids - one of the best sites for learning games, be sure to try WhizBall Whyville - a student-centered, hands-on environment for exploring various school subjects, encouraging scientific discovery and social responsibility. Food Force - a great exploration/mission game to help students understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it. SimCity Classic - Live! The online version of one of the all-time greatest learning games AquaMOOSE3D - play with the behavior of parametric equations in three dimensions and create things that are beautiful both mathematically and artistically. Gamequarium - thousands of educational games and videos!
Careers in Game Designing
Gama Sutra - "The Art and Business of Making Games"; a highly-valuable site used by pros in the game design industry!Game Designing Careers Links
International Game Developers' Association - Breaking In: Preparing for your career in games
Game Design Jobs - a good list (with explanations) of all the different types of jobs that are part of a game designing team
A Good Place to Start Out: Game Tester
Resources for Game Design Beginners at GameDev
How do I make games? A Path to Game Development
Game Industry Map - shows you where in the world the different game design companies are located, along with a lot of useful information about them
Rise of the Video Game - Part 1 - needs to be re-uploaded to my server, check back later!Videos on Game Design and Game Industry History
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Rise of the Video Game - Part 5 - needs to be re-uploaded to my server, check back later!
What is Game Design? - Wikipedia's easy-to-understand explanationGame Designing Examples, Forums, and Articles
Game-Based Learning - an excellent explanation of how/why games are good for learning and how to make a good learning game
Why Games at School? - another great explanation of the benefits of educational games, especially when students are creating them
Engage Me or Enrage Me - a well-argued article by Mark Prensky on how education needs to adapt to our 21st century culture
Game Design and Game Play to Aid Learning - a great collection of articles!
Texas Games Network - meeting place for teachers and students to share about game designing
The Game Maker's Apprentice - an outstanding online guide to creating computer games
Game Maker Student Examples
Game Maker Official Site - tons of example games, plus a great user forum to answer all your questions
MindTools - examples, tutorials, and more; resources for seven different game design programs
Arcademic Skill Builders - a strong site with many outstanding educational gamesEducational Games Online
FunBrain - a great educational gaming site
Scholastic - another site with rich learning games
Kinetic City - great site for science and engineering games
Discovery Kids - one of the best sites for learning games, be sure to try WhizBall
Whyville - a student-centered, hands-on environment for exploring various school subjects, encouraging scientific discovery and social responsibility.
Food Force - a great exploration/mission game to help students understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it.
SimCity Classic - Live! The online version of one of the all-time greatest learning games
AquaMOOSE3D - play with the behavior of parametric equations in three dimensions and create things that are beautiful both mathematically and artistically.
Gamequarium - thousands of educational games and videos!
Quest AtlantisOnline Worlds - Total Virtual Environments
River City
LoopSoundGame Designing Resources - Sounds, Sprites, and More
Sound Snap
FlashKit
FlashKit
Reiners Tilesets
Roencia Game Creators
SpriteWorks
Game Beep
Game Maker 7Game Designing Tools
Game Maker 6.1
Game Discovery
Scratch
Inform7 - for creating Interactive Fiction games
Game Creation Software
Sodaplayup-to-date Java engine
MoovlJava enginehere
Bamzooki
StarLogoProgramming Tools
StarLogo TNG
Scratch
Squeak
Alice
Python
GW-BASIC - first generation
QuickBASIC - or QBASIC, second generation (you might need to get the program file here)
Visual Studio 2005 Express - third generation, replaces Visual BASIC 6.0 (2008 is out now, but 2005 is easier for newbies + is free)